Stop App from Multi-Tasking?

Only way to close an App that's running is from the multitask panel (double-tap Home Key quickly).

Double-tap the Home button quickly and the multitask bar opens to show you the current applications that are being held in stasis. If you want to close one of the apps, hold your finger down on the icon for a couple seconds and it will begin to "jiggle" along with the rest of the icons. You will also see a small red "badge" appear in the upper LH corner of the icon with a small, white "minus sign" in the middle. Just tap the red badge and the application icon disappears which clears the App from memory.

What dmiannay posted above is what you're looking for; it doesn't delete the app, just stops it. (To delete an app, you hold your finger on an app until it starts wiggling, and then there's an "X" in the corner to tap if you want to delete it.)

Ryan Ackley wrote:
Every app you open goes into multi-taking once closed so you can have dozens of apps ready. I wanted one of the apps to stop because it was using a timer. It was still running because it was available in multi-tasking.

Not true. Only apps rewritten to support it. Just because it is down in the tab doesn't mean it is running. Everything you launch is stored down there for you to relaunch. There are very few apps out there that multitask or take advantage of the quicklaunch feature of iOS 4.

Most people don't know the true definition of multitasking, and the difference between multitasking and backgrounding.

On a phone, you can't multitask with anything except music. On a computer, you can watch a movie, monitor an IM conversation you are having with a friend and type up a document for work/school.

On a phone? NO.

Apple is ONLY calling this multitasking because people are sheep and too stupid to realize that you CAN'T multitask on a mobile device, ESPECIALLY ON A CELL PHONE.

What we are actually doing is backgrounding, and when you get down to the heart of how the backgrounding works, it makes people's heads try to explode. They try to understand it, but those who aren't technically inclined blow up the whole definition out of proportion. Also, developers are the reasons why apps don't multitask, NOT Apple (although Apple shoulda' gotten on the ball with backgrounding sooner).

Pretty much, there are 7 APIs that are available to devs, if they want to keep running a service in the background. This is much more efficient, because if you can't see the application, what is the point of still having it run??? It should ONLY keep the SERVICE open that it needs.

As for the "multitasking", as long as the dev recompiles their app against the new 4.0 SDK (they don't have to change any code, merely open it in the new SDK and recompile it), the app will then "freeze" itself in the state it is in when the end user hits the Home button. Then, when the user goes back the app, it will "unfreeze" itself and to the end user, it will seem as if it was never closed.

As for the system handing this, if an app is opened that needs more memory than is available, it will look at the frozen apps, and will find the one that you used LAST (the "least recently used" algorithm) and will close that one, and thus, the CPU and memory that it needs to run the new app will be obtained.

However, the end user who wants to understand but doesn't, won't understand this. I don't like when I hear people complaining about this issue. 😠

Here is a link to the 7 backgrounding APIs.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362459,00.asp

Its very easy to stop multitasking in iPhone 4. Just double-click on the home button, select required app and exit. The procedure is shown here http://www.downhub.com/exit-multi-tasking-apps-ios-4-0-ipod-touch-iphone-ipad-st op-multi-tasking/.

I'm not a huge fan either.. here was my post earlier


http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11759645#11759645

Your post makes no sense at all. The question is how to **quit** the app, not allow it to go multitasking?

I'm hoping to see either Apple update iOS to allow more control over multitasking or for an app that will do that. I HATE multitasking.

i always do so, but my iphone freezes closing the multitsk apps.

While it may be very easy to remove an app from multitasking, it is annoying and time consuming. Especially if you used 20 apps during the day and only want one or two left in multitasking.